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KHAIRPUR, Aug 19: Office-bearers of the action committee of the 'commission pass lecturers' staged a sit-in outside the press club here on Thursday. Talking to newsmen, they claimed that the Sindh Public Service Commission had selected 741 lecturers on merit.
They criticized Sindh Education Minister Hamida Khuhro for rejecting the SPSC's selection and blamed that she wanted to induct some of her favourites in the list. They said the minister was trying to bring disrespect for the commission and playing with the future of 741 candidates selected on merit. They appealed to the Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Raheem for justice.
PROTEST: On the call of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association a black day was observed here on Thursday. Speaking at a meeting at the Government Superior Science College, Khairpur, Prof Ayub Mari, Prof Zahid Pirzado, Prof Noor Ahmed Khuhro and others castigated the privatization of the Saint Patrick and Saint John colleges in Karachi.
SALU VAN STOLEN: Some unknown persons took away a van of Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur from Faizabad colony here on Wednesday. The Registrar of the university Syed Ahmed Ali Shah registered an FIR at A-Section police station under section 381-A PPC against unidentified thieves.
